Robert Webb Quotes

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding.

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.